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Archived Comments for: Associations of HLA alleles with specific language impairment

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  1. Addendum to the paper

    Ron Nudel, University of Oxford

    21 January 2015

    In our paper we presented relative risks (risk ratios) for HLA alleles that had low p-values in the case-control association analysis. However, our samples were selected on the basis of disorder status, and, therefore, a more appropriate way for assessing the strength of association would have been provided by odds ratios. We would therefore like to report the odds ratios for those five HLA alleles, as estimated using the same data used in the estimation of the relative risks: DR10 8.085; DQA1*0301 0.674; B57 0.449; DR4 0.599; DR12 0.255. Please note that this does not affect the conclusions of the study, as the observed odds and risk ratios are in the same direction.

    Competing interests

    None declared

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